for - history - French and American Revolution - the role of coffee houses during the Enlightenment

summary - Coffee has a fascinating history - The relationship between coffee and alcohol was interesting - In Muslim culture, coffee houses began appearing in the Ottoman Empire because alcohol was forbidden for Muslims - The coffeehouses spread from the Ottoman Empire to Europe where it replaced the daily ritual of drinking beer - People in London did not drink the polluted Thames because it was so unhygienic that they could catch cholera - Alcohol had its side effects however, of making everyone drowsy. When the Industrial Revolution appeared, this drowsiness could lead to terrible industrial accidents - Coffee was the perfect replacement. Some speculate that it made the Industrial Revolution possible - Coffee houses began to spring up in London. Like in the Ottoman Empire, they were frowned upon by elites because this ability for all types of people to gather for the first time was perceived as a threat to political stability - Among the ideas born in coffee houses and cafes: - French Revolution - Storming of the Bastille j - Enlightenment intellectuals met here - American Revolution - Sons of Liberty met and planned the American Revolution - Benjamin Franklin frequented - Lloyds of London was conceived of - The idea of the Newspaper started due to notes of ideas exchanged and communicated in different columns of notes recorded - Famous scientists met there like Isaac Newton - London Stock Exchange was conceived of here

for - trivia / history - first coffee house in London - opened in 1652 by - Pasqua Rosee - revolution in London society - broke through hierarchy of British society

for - trivia / history - coffee house - quote - Paris Cafe as organizing ground for the agitators that led the French Revolution

quote - Where does so much mad agitation come from? - From a crowd of - minor clerks and lawyers, - from unknown writers, - starving scribblers, - who go about rabble-rousing in clubs and cafés. - These are the hotbeds that have forged the weapons with which the masses are armed today.

for - trivia / history - coffee house - Smyrna Coffee House in London - Benjamin Franklin wrote his famous Open Letter to Lord North satirizing the King's power over the colonies.

for - trivia / history - Merchant's Coffee House in New York - birth of the Bank of New York and The New York Chamber of Commerce

for - trivia / history - coffee house - The Green Dragon Tavern in Boston - home of The American Revolution - due to many meetings by the Sons of Liberty

for - quote - hatred of coffee houses - Frederick the Great

quote - hatred of coffee houses - Frederick the Great - (see below) - It is despicable to see how extensive the consumption of coffee is - If this is limited a bit, people will have to get used to beer again - His Royal Majesty was raised eating beer-soup, so these people can also be brought up nurtured with beer-soup. This is much healthier than coffee.

for - trivia / history - coffee house - Frederick the Great of Germany outlawed coffee houses - he favored beer and beer business was losing money to coffee

for - trivia / history - coffee house - Grecian Coffee House - Isacc Newton and other members of Royal Society frequented - Newton dssected a dolphin on a table at this coffee house - another coffee house introduced the ballot box for voting

for trivia / history - coffee house - Jonathan's Coffee House - stockbrokers traded shares here after closing hours - gave birth to the London Stock Exchange

for - trivia / history - coffee house - Lloyd's coffee house - sailors and merchants conceived of Lloyd's of London Insurance Company here.

for - trivia - coffee houses - London - ban on talking about politics in coffee houses - 1672, June 12 - King Charles II tried closing coffee houses - but it only lasted 11 days - secretary of state sent spies into coffee houses in 1675

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Drinking 3 cups of coffee or 200-300 mg of caffeine a day can halve the risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease and stroke, researchers from Suzhou University in China, in collaboration with Swedish scientists, have shown.

Moderate caffeine consumption may protect cardiovascular health, regardless of age, gender, smoking or diet. The study is based on data from over 300,000 people from the UK Biobank, collected over 11 years.

The Ultimate Moka Pot Technique (Episode #3) by [[James Hoffman]]

This is Coffee by Vision Associates

Brandzaak koffie branders Nederland

https://www.brandzaak.nl/

Pubs making way for coffee shops

https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/11474082

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943764163503681

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3xh3p

Coffee as wasting time versus saving time; people should be working

See other account that mentions that coffee saves time. Theme of time seems to be present with coffee.

55:00 coffee was linked to politics early days (bans)

https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/11338479

Sufis, coffee as aid for focus during prayer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Interpretation

Coffee as consistent with protestant work ethic

• see coffee as source for flow (in combination with distributed cognition)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rZIpsFE6Yw

Attended live on 2023-09-07

https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/11148297

9th-century copy of Boethius's Latin translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione, referred to in the manuscript as Periermenias, with the shorter of two commentaries that Boethius wrote on that work. Replacement leaves added in the 11th century to the beginning (f. 1-4) and end (f. 45-64) of the manuscript, in addition to providing the beginning and end of the Boethius (which is probably lacking 2 gatherings between extant gatherings 6 and 7), include the Periermeniae attributed to Apuleius in the medieval period, a poem by Decimus Magnus Ausonius on the seven days of Creation, a sample letter of a monk to an abbot with interlinear and marginal glosses, and other miscellaneous verses, definitions, and excerpts. Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania, has determined that two groups of leaves are misbound; leaves 5-12 (the original order appears to have been 5, 9, 10, 6, 7, 11, 12, 8) and leaves 53-64 (the original order of the leaves appears to have been 61, 62, 53-60, 63, 64).

For those interested in the history of classical education, manuscripts, books, and knowledge transfer, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the Shoenberg Institute have a potentially relevant ongoing zoom series called Coffee with a Codex in which they regularly bring out rare manuscripts, codices, incunabula, etc. from their collection to show and discuss.

Keep in mind that the presentation is done by library curators who may not be subject matter experts on the books they present, but the topics are nearly all relevant to classical education. Most attendees are academics, historians, medievalists, or regularly doing research in the areas of information studies and will often have thoughts, ideas, or experience with classical education, and may be able to answer questions about historical practices in the chat. Presentations are generally informal, short, and meant for a generalist audience. Quite often digital scans of the materials they present are available for browsing online or downloading for further study.

See the full schedule for Coffee with a Codex three weeks ahead at https://schoenberginstitute.org/coffee-with-a-codex/

To give folks an idea of the presentations, recordings of Coffee With A Codex since January 2022 are available at their YouTube Playlist. (To my knowledge they don't archive copies of their chat transcripts where the participants are usually fairly active, but some of the chat does make it verbally into the recorded discussion.)

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Of particular interest this coming week is a presentation on a book which will touch on the recent conversation "Ancient Textbooks for Ancient Curriculums?" by u/psimystc with respect to the Carolingian educational program in the 9th-11th centuries.

https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/11148297

Details

Date: Thursday, September 7, 2023<br /> Time: 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Coffee with a Codex: Boethius and Aristotle <br /> On September 7, Curator Dot Porter will bring out LJS 101, a 9th and 11th century copy of Aristotle translated by Boethius, created as part of the Carolingian educational program. See the record: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9951865503503681

Free registration is required. https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/11148297

An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different manuscript and the expertise of one of our curators. Everyone is welcome to attend. Welcome back for 2023-2024!

Syndication link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicalEducation/comments/16a1oyi/coffee_with_a_codex_at_penn_libraries_recurring/

• Caffeine as backbone of civilization
• caffeine archetype ( I am the mindful master)
• high correlation between flow & caffeine
• associate caffeine with flow (I also do this with flow music)
• shortcut struggle phase with caffeine
• caffeine timing (1 to 1.5 hours until waking & 10 hours before sleep no caffeine)
• proper dosage (test what works) 4.1 higher dosage when lack of sleep
• what caffeine synergizes most (for me, probably coffee, in particular espresso) 5.1 double water intake when drinking caffeine (I always try to do this) 6 keep caffeine sensitivity high (1 day per week off, 1 week per quarter off)

https://moonwoodcoffee.com/

Catered Alverno mental health event in May 2023.

Altadena Now » Local Music Promoter Bob Stane Hospitalized, Coffee Gallery Backstage Permanently Closed

—Ronald Reagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pPCMjqI_uw

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MakingHistory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaKRBBpA4fw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VlT_jUVPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBXm8fCWdo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aidvrssMSGo

https://pasadenamag.com/people-places/out-and-about/altadenas-coffee-gallery-backstage-a-historical-labor-of-love/

https://schoenberginstitute.org/2022/03/09/ms-codex-1630-ms-codex-1629-rhetoric/

Jane Austen’s contemporaries, including everyone from the laboring poor to the royals, shared a belief in the restorative power of spring water and in the consumption of natural remedies. In the years when Austen was writing Northanger Abbey, the warm springs offered at Bath’s Pump rooms were a popular treatmentfor those suffering from loss of appetite, nerves (Mrs. Bennett!), gout, and ailments affecting the stomach, head, and vital parts.

In 1813, a guide to the resort claimed that the waters contained carbon dioxide, azotic gas, sulphates, muriate of soda, selenite, carbonate of lime siliceous earth, and a very small portion of oxide of iron (Guide 32). These properties probably gave the water a sulfuric aroma. As the opening of this chapter suggests, though, whether ill or healthy, the resort provided for all. For the healthy visitor, the prime activity was to consume in ways that are familiar to us: purchasing clothes or textiles, as Catherine learns to do from Mrs. Allen, window-shopping, and people-watching.

These lines express Austen’s awareness of the period’s rapidly growing consumer market, resulting from an unprecedented growth in the middle class, which in turn increased demand for domestic and foreign goods. Purchasing power allowed Bath visitors to pay about one guinea a month for access to the warm spring waters served in the newly renovated Pump Room, and to provide a handsome gratuity to the pumper serving water from the King’s Springs .jpg) (Guide 38). But they would likely also be paying to imbibe other popular drinks, including tea, coffee, and chocolate, which albeit pricey were increasingly affordable to the growing middle-class (Selwyn 215). As any Austen fan knows, the Pump Room continues to serve tourists today. Although bathing is no longer allowed, tea, chocolate, coffee, and warm spring waters can still be imbibed.

Walking the streets of Bath with Catherine as we read through Northanger Abbey’s first volume, we might keep in mind who teaches Catherine her consumer habits, and how the novel’s development may be commenting on these practices. We might also consider how the novel records a turning point in the consumption of natural remedies and other goods extracted from apparently distant communities and environments. How much do our current consumer habits differ from Catherine’s?

Works Cited.

https://schoenberginstitute.org/2021/12/13/ms-codex-1248-liturgical-miscellany/

https://jamesg.blog/2021/11/18/hypertext-coffee-pot

Introducing the HyperText Coffee Pot

In parchment manuscripts one will often see small pin prick holes in the parchment which indicates that a hole in the animal skin was repaired during processing. Usually after curing and before use the thread from the repair is removed leaving only the small holes.

Rarely, but occasionally, the thread will still remain in the final manuscript. An example of this is LJS 418, f 3r where one can see the thread left in the page.

Smudged or worn lines on manuscripts may be indicative of a manuscript having been unbound and potentially folded and possibly carried during regular use.

LJS 418 f. 6v shows an example of this pattern though the manuscript was later bound.

Mentioned at Coffee With a Codex on 2021-11-01 with an example on the closing pages of LJS 418, which isn't very clear/good, and another in MS Codex 1248, which is in a tiny manuscript, but very clear and lovely.

https://bibliophilly.library.upenn.edu/viewer.php?id=Oversize%20LJS%20418#page/12/mode/thumb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiated_initial

I wonder if these still exist in the new spaces of productivity porn in within journaling? Perhaps the application of stickers in peoples' planners sort of serves some of this functionality, though I'd consider them to be more in the drollery family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV1DsqwbmO0

Take away: mortar and pestle and paper towels are your friend if you're in a bind.

James didn't include a photo here, but oddly I've never thought of using my Aeropress upside down like this. I'll have to give a try this week.

https://jamesg.blog/2021/08/24/ordering-espresso-at-cafes

This reminds me that I ought to be more adventurous in cafes myself. Of course the pandemic ending could help in that area as well.

Coffee Ratio Calculator https://jamesg.blog/ratio/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9YnLFrM7Fs

Good overview of what the marketing on a bag of coffee is trying to tell you.

May be worth doing a quick sketchnotes version of this episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO06RC4pvr0

Fascinating how he's broken this down and managed to recreate what the Nespresso Vertuo is doing.

Not sure it was recorded, but it's an ongoing series if you're interested in the area: https://schoenberginstitute.org/coffee-with-a-codex/

Barber, C. (n.d.). ‘Instant Coffee’ COVID-19 Tests Could Be the Answer to Reopening the U.S. Scientific American. Retrieved August 27, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/instant-coffee-covid-19-tests-could-be-the-answer-to-reopening-the-u-s/

Manual for my espresso maker.

Only a 1 penny of every dollar the coffee industry sees in revenue goes to the grower. What's wrong with this picture?

In my research on coffee talks with Bosnian/Bosniak women, there's a (recent) story I came across in which a family of four (mom, dad, daughter, son) who are part of the diaspora living in America are visited by grandma, who grew up and continues to live in Bosnia. Upon arrival, the grandma witnesses American coffee culture first-hand when her daughter, son-in-law, and grandkids gather around the kitchen table one morning and drink their coffee -- which was made by a machine -- quickly and quietly before running off to work or school. She is deeply horrified -- offended even -- so much so that she shortens her trip from one month to a week. In Bosnia, what kind of coffee you drink, how you make it, who you drink it with, when, and for how long, what you talk about while drinking it -- these are all very significant things. In America, not so much.

I've been writing and researching about the coffee talks that Bosnian/Bosniak women partake in and how our particular coffee came to be, how and when it affected/s our minds/bodies, and how it allowed for the emergence of a women-only space designed to foster the exchange of information+women's experiences and hold together entire communities. Coffee, for Bosnian/Balkan women, worked by stabalizing networks, and ultimately stabilizing Yugoslavia (you know, before the men and the West kinda fucked things up a bit). My research is ethnographic, and Rickert's argument here comes off a little bit like that.

Would be very interesting to read this book.

You had me already at the Coffee Cup picture over the equations! :)

Livestock has done better than exporting coffee

Craft beer is a fascinating world, partly because of this approach to sharing. Much of the so-called “Craft Beer Revolution” happened through homebrewers who were sharing tips and recipes online (not to mention ingredients and samples offline). The idea, in many an indie/craft scene, is that the out-group is the Mainstream. Very similar story among owners of Third Wave cafés. Of course, there are differences. But still… When you have a “common enemy” (Anheuser-Busch, Starbucks, McGraw-Hill…), it’s much easier to grow together.

@jonaso says these are too short.